Ballista Wood Kit
From: Sunward Aerospace
Price: $29.95
Availability:Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Product Description
Tre'bu?'het: (tré-buh-shay) a fifteenth-century military engine used for hurling heavy weapons and rocks. Made from high quality knot free Basswood, this Ballista is a great addition to any homemade artillery collection. Inspired by Alexander the Great's Artillery of the Macedonian Soldiers, this ballistic firing machine is a working model easily assembled from pre-cut and pre-drilled pieces. Includes laser cut plywood wheels. A fun group or family project, once completed you and your friends and family will be experiencing the thrill of flinging projectiles like those medieval machines, but focusing on height, velocity, and distance rather than on knocking down the enemy's fortress. For the truely daring, you can alter characteristics of the trebuchet such as the mass of the clay, the string length, or the amount of the counterweight and can see how the results are affected. You will also see these concepts in action: levers, inertia, counterweights, friction, and more. This kit includes all materials for construction -- Size: 11-1/2" long, 9" wide, and 5-1/2" tall. Ages 16 and up, 10-16 with adult supervision.
Product Details
- Brand: Sunward Aerospace
- Model:
Features
- Part of the Siege Engine Line - Precut and Predrilled
- Made from high quality Basswood
- Working model with bucket, Almost 18" long and 9 1/2" tall
- Laser cut Plywood Wheels.*
- Great Group or Family Project. Excellent physics classroom project.
